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Dare I suggest he was on Stoke’s radar prior to him joining ? He never appeared to have much of an idea about players from Europe when he was with us.

In fact, didn’t he say signing players from Europe was a gamble (which I took as an excuse to detract from his lack of knowledge of those players)

The bloke’s full of it, I can say hand on heart and on my dog’s lives I never watched any of his press conferences having decided he sickened me while watching one of them fan forums. Smug twit.

Yeah did wonder if it was already set up before he joined?

Certainly remember him saying there was only a few leagues in Europe suited to the Championship maybe, think he mentioned Bundesliga for one (?) but he spoke good a lot of the time, just never backed it up with his actions half the time.

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Certainly remember him saying there was only a few leagues in Europe suited to the Championship maybe, think he mentioned Bundesliga for one (?) but he spoke good a lot of the time, just never backed it up with his actions half the time.

He can also afford to pi$$ Stoke's money up the wall. He always seemed a bit grumpy he couldn't do that with Mel's because others already had.

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Strange signing for him to make, considering everything he has said in the past. I've read that he's a hard-working player, with lots in the tank. I'm not surprised in the slightest by that, but the price seems outrageous? I think Mel needs to get whoever looks after Feirense's player sales on the blower - we may need him!

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Certainly remember him saying there was only a few leagues in Europe suited to the Championship maybe, think he mentioned Bundesliga for one (?) but he spoke good a lot of the time, just never backed it up with his actions half the time.

You have that the wrong way around. He spoke good half the time just never backed it up a lot of the time.

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Afobe is a better version of Jerome, so it's no surprise. I have no doubts that he is actually his signing. He's always done well at this level, so no doubt he'll be up amongst the top scorers. A much better signing than the Nigerian.

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